I purchased this barrel from classic because I was sucked in by the price and the little write up on 5r rifling. I have had great results so far ( .335" groups/100yards), was wondering if anyone else has the barrel and if it has done well for them ?
Anyone buy this Classicfirearms.com barrel ?
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Originally posted by longlickfriends77 View PostI purchased the 18' non fluted 5R SS Grendel barrel last week, waiting for it to come in, should be this week sometime. It was on sale for $87 plus shipping was $11.
I will let yall know if it works, for $ 87 I could not pass it up.
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I received my barrel, overall looks pretty good for $87 plus $11 shipping, I cleaned it up which it was real dirty. It must have took about 25 patches. Went and shot about 40 rounds of hornady 123gr ELD Match.
It shot about 1.5 to 2 MOA, that is the break in plus a couple more shots. I am assuming it will tighten up a bit after I get a few more shots down the pipe, and start with hand loads. Overall not to bad, I guess with
a cheap barrel.
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In process of build now with the same barrel only not fluted. I was told it came already dimpled for the gas block. It was not. Was yours? If not how did you dimple the stainless steel? Not much shooting here over 250 yards. Would like to shoot as heavy a bullet as i can get 1800fps at 250yds. What bullet weight did you use for .335 groups?
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It is good if you have no issues with your barrel. If you have issues Classic will not even return your call or email and will be stuck with useless barrel.
The first grendel barrel I bought was a 20" rifle length 5r fluted nitride and would not even chamber a round, wolf or black.
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First, i appear to be the only one having great results using classic contact procedures for communicating questions about shipping and product questions. Next, reading other forums there seems to be great concern over what grease to use on the barrel nut. What are you using? The mil-spec grease is apparently by mail order only and i am tired of waiting for mine to get here. Understand no graphite and no copper.
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Shot my barrel yesterday and I had zero issues after 40 rounds. Everything chambered, ejected etc. I need to get a keylock piece of rail so I can attach my bipod to the rifle to determine how good/bad accuracy is. @ 25 yards basically timing my shots between breaths it was around 1". I figure with a nice rest it should do much better.
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I bought one of the Nitride heavy straight flute barrels on sale from Classic. 1:8 5R Great price and I am impressed with how well it is shooting. There are not any BCA markings on it and mine was dimpled, in fact the Stoner low profile gas block I used was a great fit, set in nice and tight and seems to be plenty of gas getting through. Mine feeds better once I installed a heavy H2 buffer and Wolff extra power carbine spring in the lower. It likes the 100gr Wolf steel, and does ok with Hornady Black. Unfortunately that is the only ammo I have been able to buy so far. I want to try some 120gr Barnes, 125 Nosler Partitions and 127gr Barnes LRX projectiles out of it.
As well as it shoots with 100gr Wolf, I am going to try some 100gr Nosler partitions and Ballistic tips. It should do as well as a short barreled .243 on whitetails and pronghorn
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